Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-20
BUFFALO'S HOLOCAUST.
At Least Thirty People Believed to
Have Persisted In the Rich.
mend Hotel Fire.
The Money Loss Will Reach Four Hundred
Thousand Misunderstanding
for the Bodies.
WORSE THAN THE FIRST REPORTS

QiSl dangerous Walls 1tlt sIduuIuS ny
Yesterdays holocaust. The bodies oil
several victims are still in the ruins. II
is undoubtedly fact that at least thirty
persisted.
The total loss by the fire will be $500,
900. Of this amount the Buffalo Library
loses SI30,000 on the hotel and mus
cum buildings, which were insured fol
100000.
Filter & Townsend, clothiers, were
insured for $40, 900. Their stock was q
total loss, valued at $50, 900.
Peter Paul Bro. and Alberch &
Kingsley, stationers, each lose $4,000,
with $4,000 insurance.
Several MINOR losses were sustained.
Henry B. Rumsey of New York, who
was one of the guests at the Richmond
the night of the fire, and who was terribly
| burned about the body, died at Fitch Hos
pital this morning. This makes six
known deaths so far.
| Louis Zimmerman of New York was
one of the many who had a narrow es-
cape from the burning building. He says
about AS he was awakened by the ring
ing of the electric bell. He stepped into
the hall and saw the fire rushing up from
below. Several persons, among them
number of women, ran into his room
in the greatest CONSERVATION. He made
preparations to escape. He sprang from
the window for the roof of Bunnell's
Museum and escaped. Zimmerman says
he is positive there were seven persons
in hts room when he left it, and all he
saWescape was one man. 1t is his be-
lief that the others lost their lives.
" The ruins of the Richmond hotel pre-
sented q dismal spectacle this morning.
Crowds continue to gather in the vicinity.
Firemen are still employed in
Wetting down the ruins pre-
paratory to making a search for
the bodies known to be somewhere under
menced to-day. At II:l5 this morning
near the south wall. The body was
burned probably beyond recognition.
Three of the four persons taken to the
Sisters of Charity Hospital yesterday are
il very precarious condition. They are
Misses May Nolan, Fannie Harty and
Maggie MuIrick, three girls employed ct
the Richmond. Their injuries are fright
full.
DR.. f. II. Norton, attending surgeon
at the Fitch hospital, said this morning !
that all the injured persons under his /
care were doing as we'll as could be tx. /
peCted. He thinks they will all recover. !
This morning the body of HenIy Rum !
sey Of New York, who died at the hos |
pital, was given in charge of friends. /
The deceased was fOTtY-tWO years old |
He was connected wi h the United States !
navy. HIS parents reside at Santa Fe /
and his wife and daughter at Fort Wayne. /
The deceased lost his life by going back .
to rescue the little daughter of Mrs.
Mann. He heard her scream end put her
inside his shirt to protect her from the
fire. Following is g revised lift of the
dead:
WILSON PURCELL and KATE WOLF Of
LockpOrt,
MARK OSBORN, body not recovered, -
LIZZIE WEIGH.
HENRY B. RUMSEY, died at the hospital.
Those missing and unaccountea tor
are:
J. B. ACKER of the Delaware, LackR-
wanna and Western Railroad.
HERMON BENEDICT, JR., Of LOCkpOrt.
A special from Lockport this morning
says: Hermon Benedict, Jr., was I'M
lost in the Richmond hoJel
fire. HIS father gives up all hope OF his
son being alive.
Mr.. JOHNSON of Toronto, railroad
man.
JOSEPH SAYRE of Erie, Pa.
J. G. PRATT ofAlbany.
Mr.. Goodrich of New York, reported
missing, has been heard from at Cleve-
land, Ohio. The list at present stands
six persons killed, twenty-one injured,
five or six seriously, five missing.
Little Jennie Mann, daughter of one of
the prOprietOrs of the hotel, in -esCuing
whom Mr.. Rumsey sacrificed his own life,
was reported very low this morning, and
1t is feared she cannot recover. The body
of man was found in the ruins this
morning thought to be that of Henry Ben
edict, Jr., of Lockport. His father has
been telegrsphed for. Arthur Perry of
Weiland, Ont, arrived this morning to
search for brotherwho is missing andWas
supposed to have been at the Richmond
on the night of the fire. a gentleman at
Towanda reports this afternoon that
Captain w. H. Shepard of Cleveland,
whom he met IN that city a few days
since, intended to come to Buffalo on
business Thursday and was to stop at the
Richmond, He has not since been heard !
Of, and telegram from the family states
that they have heard nothing from him.
DOWN WITH THE WIRES.
BUFFALO, n. Y. March IA largely
attended meeting of representative citi- !
zens vas held at the Merchants Elk !
change this afternoon, TO take action in {
avOr of the removal of electric wires t
rom the streets and placing them under
ground. The meeting grew out of the
experiences Of the Fire Department at
he recent great fire, especially with the
cables strung by the Telephone Company, |
md resulted IN the adoption as the sense {
+ the meeting of s resolution that the
Telephone Company be requested to re-
move the cables by next Monday noon,
md If they fail TO do 50, then the proper
authorities will be requested to remove
hem forthwith.
THE BUFFALO FIRE.
albany, n. 7 March ia reporter
listed MessTs. Willard Wylcb, insurance {
djuster, and Elisu Smith, travelling sales c
pan for LarTabee & Co. this morning.
these gentlemen were guests at the ILL., II
ated Richmond hotel in Buffalo, and l
cached home this morning. Welch says:
4 was awakened by the ringing of an
lectriC bell in my room and hastily drew S
n my trousers and shoes. | then
pened the door of the room, j
nd as | did so the flames rushed
n. l slammed the door shut and
for q second convinced me that {
measures were necessary. The c
re had now burst through nv bath room 4
DOR and was licking up the b. d and fur z
ishines. | threw a window up and Q
new it was my only salvation. The !
ames followed with each draft and singed q
~ hair and blistered my face. put the 3
'indow down and then hung from the t